It floors me that Windows Server still requires reboots after updates.
Short of a kernel update, Linux doesn't require a reboot after an install/update to a program. How has Microsoft not gotten to the same point? Reboots are huge time sink.
Eh, patch managers do it in the middle of the night now, fuck it.
If your servers never go down, how will you test your failovers?
#itsNotABugItsAFeature
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
My coworker who frequently makes stupid little mistakes was tasked with setting up a new network monitoring system.
He decided to turn on email alerts, add the entire IT department to the alert list, and then leave for the day.
So the IT department started getting emails any time a workstation was turned on or off.
nice
Also relevant:
To save on MS SQL licensing costs, we keep all SQL databases that require Standard features or better on a finite number of VMs. They have names like MS-SQL-2016-01.
But lots of apps work fine with SQL Express, so they get their own database servers with names like "VENDOR-APP-SQL-01"
When he rolled out the SQL server for this alerting system, what did he name it?
SQLEXPRESS-01
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
In one place I did some work for they had a little black book about the size of a passport that had handwritten configuration data for everything in the entire office (including passwords). It was the only place this information was recorded.
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It floors me that Windows Server still requires reboots after updates.
Short of a kernel update, Linux doesn't require a reboot after an install/update to a program. How has Microsoft not gotten to the same point? Reboots are huge time sink.
Eh, patch managers do it in the middle of the night now, fuck it.
For some of us (read: me), the middle of the night is our busy time.
And that still doesn't change the fact that, by now, Windows Server should be stable enough to run forever and never have to reboot, short of non-hot-swappable hardware and major system (kernel) changes.
So we're doing all this to switch to a better internet company. Across the board they are better in terms of interacting with them. They offer more service, etc.
Just had someone complain because the phones take a less than a second longer to be able to make a call out.
Mostly just huntin' monsters.
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my experience has taught me that people will complain about the absolute dumbest things when it comes to phones
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Just had occasion to log into Kaseya for the first time in months, to address something with a legacy client. It made me nostalgic for the UI and organization and mostly-sensible logging, compared to Labtech.
Kaseya: slow, clunky, web-based, support sucks, necessary to know how to do things multiple different ways because a given method will inexplicably fail
Labtech: slow, clunky, local app but bloated and ugly UI, support is pretty responsive with things being broken unless they're above a certain complexity (which will take forever) or if you're asking how to use something that doesn't seem to work (they don't know either)
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my experience has taught me that people will complain about the absolute dumbest things when it comes to phones
I was once supporting a law firm, when a high-up attorney called me urgently to his office. His desk phone's cord was twisted, you see, and it was impeding his ability to take phone calls. I, trying not to make it obvious as I glanced around for the candid camera, agreed that he ought to un-twist the cable.
"No, look", he said as he pulled the phone handset away from the cradle, extending the cable which of course immediately worked itself back into a tangle when he set the phone back down. "I need a new one, right away."
I nodded in understanding, took his handset out of the office, untwisted the cable, and returned it to him.
my experience has taught me that people will complain about the absolute dumbest things when it comes to phones
I was once supporting a law firm, when a high-up attorney called me urgently to his office. His desk phone's cord was twisted, you see, and it was impeding his ability to take phone calls. I, trying not to make it obvious as I glanced around for the candid camera, agreed that he ought to un-twist the cable.
"No, look", he said as he pulled the phone handset away from the cradle, extending the cable which of course immediately worked itself back into a tangle when he set the phone back down. "I need a new one, right away."
I nodded in understanding, took his handset out of the office, untwisted the cable, and returned it to him.
On Call report: Untwisted phone cord. - 6 hours.
Mostly just huntin' monsters.
XBL:Phenyhelm - 3DS:Phenyhelm
I have no idea how people manage to get them all slinkied up.
I have had the same phone cord on my phone for almost 10 years with no problems.
It's actually kind of simple. you keep spinning it in the same direction (clockwise or counter clockwise) forever.
Yeah I did this to the charger for my car.
You get muscle memory for picking up/hanging up a thing. Then oops the actions you take put a half turn in every time.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I have no idea how people manage to get them all slinkied up.
I have had the same phone cord on my phone for almost 10 years with no problems.
Mine is a tangled mess and I legitimately could not tell you how it happened. It's as much of a mystery to those of us it happens to as it is to you.
It doesn't impede my ability to pick up the phone in the slightest, though. The speakerphone button is my BFF.
Speakerphone is the devil and those who use it for anything but a conference call with multiple people are bad and should feel bad.
Alternatively, the increasing drive to the open office layout is garbage. My current gig is the first time in 5 years I've had a cubicle rather than an office, and it makes me lose my goddamn mind.
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Eh, patch managers do it in the middle of the night now, fuck it.
#itsNotABugItsAFeature
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
On Call report: troubleshooting intermittent nearly undetectable networking issue: 6 hours.
On Call report: PreCogs said to be here, said there'd be an outage to troubleshoot: 6 hours.
On Call report: reading coupon app removal program install guide: 6 hours.
I use the glue to hold together my install guides.
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My coworker who frequently makes stupid little mistakes was tasked with setting up a new network monitoring system.
He decided to turn on email alerts, add the entire IT department to the alert list, and then leave for the day.
So the IT department started getting emails any time a workstation was turned on or off.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
nice
Also relevant:
To save on MS SQL licensing costs, we keep all SQL databases that require Standard features or better on a finite number of VMs. They have names like MS-SQL-2016-01.
But lots of apps work fine with SQL Express, so they get their own database servers with names like "VENDOR-APP-SQL-01"
When he rolled out the SQL server for this alerting system, what did he name it?
SQLEXPRESS-01
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
It's handwritten on a bunch of index cards in somebody's desk drawer.
Let's hire this outside company to do our patch management, anti-virus, and backups!
Let's use all of these things on the same server with our bank database!
Wait what do you mean our SQL server is running at 97% RAM? We have 22 gigabytes of RAM! That's unpossible!
Especially when you have 5 of the 6 simultaneous instances running with unlimited RAM usage.
And add the coupon app of Exchange.
For some of us (read: me), the middle of the night is our busy time.
And that still doesn't change the fact that, by now, Windows Server should be stable enough to run forever and never have to reboot, short of non-hot-swappable hardware and major system (kernel) changes.
I can now officially say I engineered my first network with real big boy equipment.
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Just had someone complain because the phones take a less than a second longer to be able to make a call out.
XBL:Phenyhelm - 3DS:Phenyhelm
Kaseya: slow, clunky, web-based, support sucks, necessary to know how to do things multiple different ways because a given method will inexplicably fail
Labtech: slow, clunky, local app but bloated and ugly UI, support is pretty responsive with things being broken unless they're above a certain complexity (which will take forever) or if you're asking how to use something that doesn't seem to work (they don't know either)
I was once supporting a law firm, when a high-up attorney called me urgently to his office. His desk phone's cord was twisted, you see, and it was impeding his ability to take phone calls. I, trying not to make it obvious as I glanced around for the candid camera, agreed that he ought to un-twist the cable.
"No, look", he said as he pulled the phone handset away from the cradle, extending the cable which of course immediately worked itself back into a tangle when he set the phone back down. "I need a new one, right away."
I nodded in understanding, took his handset out of the office, untwisted the cable, and returned it to him.
On Call report: Untwisted phone cord. - 6 hours.
XBL:Phenyhelm - 3DS:Phenyhelm
I have had the same phone cord on my phone for almost 10 years with no problems.
It's actually kind of simple. you keep spinning it in the same direction (clockwise or counter clockwise) forever.
Yeah I did this to the charger for my car.
You get muscle memory for picking up/hanging up a thing. Then oops the actions you take put a half turn in every time.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Mine is a tangled mess and I legitimately could not tell you how it happened. It's as much of a mystery to those of us it happens to as it is to you.
It doesn't impede my ability to pick up the phone in the slightest, though. The speakerphone button is my BFF.
Speakerphone is the devil and those who use it for anything but a conference call with multiple people are bad and should feel bad.
XBL:Phenyhelm - 3DS:Phenyhelm
fax machines
You know. You might have convinced me to change my mind. . .
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Specifically, the part where mine is reachable.
Alternatively, the increasing drive to the open office layout is garbage. My current gig is the first time in 5 years I've had a cubicle rather than an office, and it makes me lose my goddamn mind.
But true open concept where you like, work at the equivalent of a dining room table is literally the worst thing.